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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Dual boot
DVA8752
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 01 2010
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Sedalia, CO

338 legs, 1,236.8 hours
31 legs, 181.3 hours online
37 legs, 232.7 hours ACARS
2 legs, 8.4 hours event
Posted onPost created on December 31 2011 00:02 ET by Brandon Howell
Does anyone have any experience with running FSX on a dual boot system of Ubuntu 10.04.3 and Windows 7 64-bit? Is performance better, worse, or about the same?


DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB

385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs, 1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
Posted onPost created on December 31 2011 06:24 ET by Alan Barber
Hi Brandon - if you have your OS'es installed on separate physical drives then performance should be the same. If however you have one single drive divided into separate partitions then there might be a slight performance hit, especially if you have FSX on the same partition as the OS, this will all come down to the read times on your HDD and how many cores your CPU has.

In my experince the best set up in a multi-boot system is to have the OS and FSX on separate physical drives. My set up (multi boot Win 7) is to have an OS on one drive which I use for day to day PC stuff, my email client and all other stuff is on there, another which has a basic OS purely to run FS, and another with FS installed - i.e. three separate drives.

Alan Barber

Senior Captain, B767-300
DVA8752
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 01 2010
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Sedalia, CO

338 legs, 1,236.8 hours
31 legs, 181.3 hours online
37 legs, 232.7 hours ACARS
2 legs, 8.4 hours event
Posted onPost created on December 31 2011 12:59 ET by Brandon Howell
Thanks, Alan. It would've been on the same drive, but I'm probably going to hold off on it as FSX is already struggling as it is.




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